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re: LSU - The National Champions of 1908
Posted on 5/22/20 at 9:43 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
Posted on 5/22/20 at 9:43 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
Northshore 76
Beers to you sir...U started all this
Beers to you sir...U started all this
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Posted on 5/22/20 at 9:44 pm to geauxtigers456
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Lol. We shouldn't even claim our 58 title. Anything before the BCS era is useless.
Hahah I found the little bitch
Posted on 5/22/20 at 9:47 pm to BayouRat15
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Northshore 76
Beers to you sir...U started all this
Man if we can get this done the power of tigerdroppings is real
Posted on 5/22/20 at 9:52 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
There is no better time to crown that 1908 team than this upcoming season. We have absolutely nothing on the line. We aren’t trying to make ourselves look more relevant than we already are.
We have won 3 national titles in the last 16 seasons. We have always had 4 National Championships going into New Orleans this year.
We have won 3 national titles in the last 16 seasons. We have always had 4 National Championships going into New Orleans this year.
Posted on 5/22/20 at 10:04 pm to GirthBrooks62
We make fun of aTm and their fake nattys! We are not them or Bama claiming crackerjacks national championships! Just give me 59, 03, 07 and 19
Posted on 5/22/20 at 10:10 pm to deftones
1908 NC is not a fake title! It’s legitimate and it’s recognized by the NCAA.
Posted on 5/22/20 at 10:19 pm to GirthBrooks62
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SIAA
I would have been talking so much shite on the SIAA Rant.
Would have been Ridin'
Glad we're taking what's ours.
Posted on 5/22/20 at 10:23 pm to Broski
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No we shouldn't, unless you want to say lend credence to the idea that USC is just as much a national champion as we were in 2003.
The difference is that in 2003 we were in the BCS era where everyone agreed before the season that the BCS winner is the Champion.
Posted on 5/22/20 at 10:25 pm to bayoubengal44
The sole NCAA champion by the way. You can’t get any more legit than that. The only undefeated & untied team. The point per minute team. I had an Auburn fan mention that reference. How in the hell does that guy know about that.
Posted on 5/22/20 at 11:15 pm to GirthBrooks62
Side note: 1908 was 112 years ago.
A 20 y/o Tiger that played that season was born in 1888. The avg lifespan back then was 40 years, so he probably passed away in 1928, if he escaped death during WWI or The Spanish Flu.
RIP to some great Tigers I'm just learning about.
A 20 y/o Tiger that played that season was born in 1888. The avg lifespan back then was 40 years, so he probably passed away in 1928, if he escaped death during WWI or The Spanish Flu.
RIP to some great Tigers I'm just learning about.
Posted on 5/23/20 at 4:00 am to LSUFreek
That I know of only one player on the 1908 team passed away from the Spanish Flu, he was up in Oregon and joined the Army and was a Major in the medical crops. this Wingards brother in-law.
Most of the team lived into the late 1930's and early 1940's, some even made it to the 1950's and 1960's, Doc Fenton lived to 1968.
Doc was born in 1887 and Mansfield Normal is not a college, it was a prep school. Today Mansfield is a college, back in those days eight grade was the highest level of school, you went to a prep school to get a teaching degree or prep for college. Louisiana had many prep schools back in those days like all states.
First death on the team was Clarence Smith passing away less that 4 weeks after the season.
Most of the team lived into the late 1930's and early 1940's, some even made it to the 1950's and 1960's, Doc Fenton lived to 1968.
Doc was born in 1887 and Mansfield Normal is not a college, it was a prep school. Today Mansfield is a college, back in those days eight grade was the highest level of school, you went to a prep school to get a teaching degree or prep for college. Louisiana had many prep schools back in those days like all states.
First death on the team was Clarence Smith passing away less that 4 weeks after the season.
Posted on 5/23/20 at 7:46 am to Broski
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No we shouldn't, unless you want to say lend credence to the idea that USC is just as much a national champion as we were in 2003.
I don't have a problem with undefeated teams claiming championships in an era when the titles were ISSUED by subjected and ambiguous measures. No team with a loss should claim a championship unless it was WON under the BCS or current playoff format!
Posted on 5/23/20 at 8:00 am to tigger1
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Doc Fenton lived to 1968
Nice. I had been wondering if any had lived to see another Tiger championship, then after figuring out the average lifespan, I became discouraged. Good post. I'm glad a handful of them got to see it.
Doc looks like he beat the odds and made it into his 80s, in the year I was born.
Posted on 5/23/20 at 11:09 am to NorthshoreTiger76
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This x1000. I think Michigan claims 7 or 8 pre poll championships.
Of the 11 national championships the school claims, 10 were before 1058.
5 were before World War I
Posted on 5/23/20 at 12:20 pm to TigerintheNO
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This x1000. I think Michigan claims 7 or 8 pre poll championships.
Of the 11 national championships the school claims, 10 were before 1058.
What was football like before 1058?
Posted on 5/23/20 at 1:24 pm to Broski
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No we shouldn't, unless you want to say lend credence to the idea that USC is just as much a national champion as we were in 2003.
They got fricked, if we’re being honest. Should have been us and USC in New Orleans.
Posted on 5/23/20 at 2:02 pm to GirthBrooks62
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This is a great injustice to our school
The lack of recognition is a great injustice to the men who played on that team,.
They were LSU and the school needs to recognize their feats and accomplishments
Long long overdue.
Posted on 5/23/20 at 2:19 pm to GirthBrooks62
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LSU - The National Champions of 1908
Print the shirts!!!
Posted on 5/23/20 at 2:22 pm to Erin Go Bragh
The old NCAA Football game on PS2 had a loading screen that referenced the Points Per Minute 1908 10-0 LSU team if you were playing a game as LSU.
Long overdue.
Long overdue.
Posted on 5/23/20 at 2:27 pm to geauxtigers456
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anything before the BCS era is useless.
So...nothing before you were born?
This post was edited on 5/23/20 at 2:28 pm
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